Volume 25, Number 14 · September 28, 1978
The Mozart of Psychology
By Stephen Toulmin
Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes
by L.S. Vygotsky, edited by Michael Cole, by Vera John-Steiner, by Sylvia Scribner, by Ellen Souberman
Harvard University Press, 159 pp., $12.50
The Psychology of Art
by L.S. Vygotsky
M.I.T. Press, 305 pp., $15.95
Soviet Developmental Psychology: An Anthology
edited by Michael Cole
M.E. Sharpe, 621 pp., $30.00
For forty years or more after the French Revolution, there was a breakdown of communications between physiologists working in France and their medical and scientific colleagues in Britain. This division was partly due to the fit of patriotism that engulfed the English during the Napoleonic Wars. But it was aggravated by ideological fears and suspicions aroused in Britain by the Revolution itself—the conservative fears and suspicions for which Edmund Burke had been the spokesman.
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